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afterwave (複数形 afterwaves)

1. A wave (in literal かつ figurative senses) that follows something.
   • 1801, Robert Charles Dallas (translator), The Natural History of Volcanoes by the Abbé Ordinaire, London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, Chapter 22, p. 158,[1]
     From the fierce burning stream, the afterwaves keep those over which they flow, in a state of fusion:
   • 1866, Saturday Review, 28 April, 1866, Vol. 21, No. 548, p. 490,[2]
     Simultaneously with the lull in Germany we are beginning to hear of all these preparations [in Italy], which the lull renders comparatively unimportant. The news of them comes as a sort of afterwave of the German crisis.
   • 1918, James Sully, My Life and Friends: A Psychologist’s Memories, London: T. Fisher Unwin, Chapter 5, p. 120,[3]
     [I] hurried on […] to Verona, and my first view of Italy’s monumental record of her past. I caught a sort of afterwave of the patriot’s angry shudder as I looked upon the forts which had recently made one of the chief overawing strongholds of the Austrian domination.
   • 1968, Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 6, p. 84,[4]
     Sounds, the mild thunder of the night waves hitting calmer water and the sigh of retreating afterwaves, now joined together with what we saw.
   • 2003, Norman Rush, Mortals, New York: Knopf, Chapter 37, pp. 705-706,[5]
     He moved in her. She was in one of the afterwaves of coming when he began.

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